and I hope today is
100% AWESOMESAUCE
[includes holographic sticker of Wonder Woman, who’s saying, “Kick ass!”]
lunchbox note #5
About my little school-aged peeps
[below: drawing of a baby chick, with a caption:]
pretends she knows how to read /
but really only pecks at seed!
lunchbox note #4
But not everyone sees it.
– Confucius
i hope you have a wonderful wednesday, my little beauty!
-mama
[written on stripey paper, in pens lavender & orange ]
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Every night I read to Phoenix before she sleeps. I am currently reading a Hardy Boys novel. I add extra sentences now and then. Usually about balls. Or Sasquatch. Or, I know what you’re thinking, but no, I haven’t done one about Sasquatch balls. Oh wait – actually I did.
lunchbox note #3
“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight,
it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
– Mark Twain
enjoy your lunch –
you are the bravest kid I know!
– mama
[written on white paper, in a Nels-made envelope ]
lunchbox note #2
YOU ARE BADASS!
TRY NOT TO OVERWHELM EVERYONE WITH YOUR AWESOMENESS.
TRY.
– mama bird
[ written on the back of a cotton patch screenprinted with a skull & bones ]
lunchbox note #1
may your teachers be kind
may your fellow students be fun!
may your day be interesting
may you return home safely to me
– <3 MAMA
[ written on yellow graph paper ]